Editing I Love Lucy (section)

===Legacy, critical acclaim and other honors===
In 1989, the never-seen pilot episode of ''I Love Lucy'' was discovered and revealed in a CBS television special, hosted by Lucie Arnaz, becoming the highest-rated program of the season.

In 2012, Emily VanDerWerff of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' wrote retrospectively:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/why-does-ii-love-lucy-iendure-after-all-these-year-72062 |title=Why does ''I Love Lucy'' endure after all these years? |last=VanDerWerff |first=Emily |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=April 9, 2012 |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821082035/http://www.avclub.com/article/why-does-ii-love-lucy-iendure-after-all-these-year-72062 |url-status=live }}</ref><blockquote>''I Love Lucy'' […] is one of the two foundational texts of American TV comedy, along with ''[[The Honeymooners]]''. The series is legitimately the most influential in TV history, pioneering so many innovations and normalizing so many others that it would be easy to write an appreciation of simply, say, the show’s accidental invention of the TV rerun.</blockquote>

''I Love Lucy'' continues to be held in high esteem by television critics and remains perennially popular. It was one of the first American programs seen on [[British television]]{{dash}}which became more open to commerce with the September 1955 launch of [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], a commercial network that aired the series. In 1982, the launch of a second terrestrial TV station devoted to advertising-funded broadcasting ([[Channel 4]]) saw the show introduced to a new generation of fans in the UK, with the ''Channel 4'' network repeating the program several times between 1983 and 1994. {{As of|January 2015}}, meanwhile, it remains the longest-running program to air continuously in the Los Angeles area, almost 60 years after production ended. However, the series is currently aired on [[KTTV]] on weekends and now [[KCOP-TV|KCOP]] on weekdays because both stations are a [[duopoly]]. KTTV was the original CBS-affiliated station in Los Angeles until 1951, just before ''I Love Lucy'' premiered on KNXT Channel 2 (now [[KCBS-TV]]) when CBS bought that station the same year. In the US, reruns have aired nationally on [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] (1980s–1990s), [[Nick at Nite]] (1994–2001), and [[TV Land]] (2001–2008) in addition to local channels. TV Land ended its run of the series by giving viewers the opportunity to vote on the show's top 25 greatest episodes on December 31, 2008, through the network's website. Unlike some shows, to which a cable channel is given exclusive rights to maximize ratings, ''I Love Lucy'' has been consistently broadcast on multiple channels simultaneously. [[Hallmark Channel]] is now the home for ''I Love Lucy'' in the United States, with the show having moved to the network on January 2, 2009, while the national version of [[Weigel Broadcasting]]'s [[MeTV]] [[digital subchannel]] network has carried the program since its debut on December 15, 2010, depending on the market (in markets where another station holds the rights, ''The Lucy Show'' is substituted). The show is seen on [[Fox Classics]] in Australia.

In addition to Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations, ''I Love Lucy'' has many honors including the following:

* The [[Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum]] in [[Jamestown, New York]] is a museum memorializing Lucy and ''I Love Lucy'', including replicas of the NYC apartment set (located in the Desilu Playhouse facility in the Rapaport Center).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n37/articles/RapaportDesilu.html |title=UB faculty member loves Lucy |first=Kevin |last=Fryling |work=UB Reporter |publisher=buffalo.edu |date=May 27, 2007 |access-date=February 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908040648/http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n37/articles/RapaportDesilu.html |archive-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In 1990, ''I Love Lucy'' became the first television show to be inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame/honorees|title=Honorees|website=Television Academy|access-date=January 3, 2021|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013163201/http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 1997, the episodes "[[Lucy Does a TV Commercial]]" and "Lucy's Italian Movie" were respectively ranked No. 2 and No. 18 on ''TV Guide'''s list of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.<ref>{{cite magazine|year=1997 |title=Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |issue=June 28 – July 4 }}</ref>
* In 1999, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked the birth of Little Ricky as the fifth greatest moment in television history.<ref name="ewtop100">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,274575,00.html |title=The Top 100 Moments in Television |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=February 19, 1999 |access-date=November 27, 2007 |first=Kelly |last=Connolly |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016051357/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,274575,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In 2002, ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked ''I Love Lucy'' No. 2 on its list of the 50 greatest shows, behind ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ahead of ''[[The Honeymooners]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=''TV Guide'' Names Top 50 Shows |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tv-guide-names-top-50-shows/ |publisher=[[CBS News]] |date=April 26, 2002 |access-date=October 6, 2007 |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904061715/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/26/entertainment/main507388.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> (According to ''TV Guide'' columnist Matt Roush, there was a "passionate" internal debate about whether ''I Love Lucy'' should have been first instead of ''Seinfeld''. He stated that this was the main source of controversy in putting together the list.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Matt/default.aspx?posting={25137E4C-7131-4DA3-B40C-300A87ACC9E1} |title=Ask Matt |magazine=TV Guide |date=April 22, 2005 |access-date=January 20, 2008}}</ref>)
* In 2007, ''Time'' magazine placed the show on its unranked list of the 100 best television shows.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652529,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028100904/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652529,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 28, 2007 |title=The 100 Best TV Shows of All-''TIME'' |first=James |last=Poniewozik |author-link=James Poniewozik |magazine=Time |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=March 4, 2010 | date=September 6, 2007}}</ref>
* In 2012, ''I Love Lucy'' was ranked the Best TV Comedy and the Best TV Show in ''Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_In_TV/love-lucy-voted-best-tv-show-time/story?id=17263942#1|title='I Love Lucy' Voted the Best TV Show of All Time|author=John Green|author2=Alice Gomstyn|date=September 18, 2012|work=ABC News|access-date=April 20, 2015|archive-date=November 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118132431/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_In_TV/love-lucy-voted-best-tv-show-time/story?id=17263942#1|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 2013, ''TV Guide'' ranked ''I Love Lucy'' as the third greatest show of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Fretts |first1=Bruce |last2=Roush |first2=Matt |title=The Greatest Shows on Earth |magazine=TV Guide Magazine |volume=61 |issue=3194–3195 |pages=16–19 }}</ref>
* In 2015, a survey of 2,800 actors, producers, directors, and other industry people conducted by ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' named ''I Love Lucy'' as their #8 favorite show.<ref name="thr20150916">{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-ever-top-819499/item/friends-hollywoods-100-favorite-tv-821361 |title=Hollywood's 100 Favorite TV Shows |date=September 16, 2015 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=July 17, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717030112/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-ever-top-819499/item/friends-hollywoods-100-favorite-tv-821361 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2023, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' chose ''I Love Lucy'' as the greatest TV show of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/lists/greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time/|title=The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time|publisher=Variety|date=December 20, 2023}}</ref>